Get Back Your Background Layer
Lost your Background layer? It happens. It's heartbreaking, but it happens. If you suddenly find yourself staring at a Layers palette and there's no Background layer (chances are you accidentally converted your Background layer into a regular layer), here's how to get a Background layer again: Click on the Create a New Layer icon, then go under the Layer menu, under New, and choose Background From Layer, and Photoshop will take your new blank layer and create a solid white Background layer at the bottom of your layer stack.
It can be usefull also when you create a transparent document instead of a white background document !
I have just purchased PS CS5 (Mac) – downloaded and installed (several times). When I open up the program, I get all the essential panels but no background. The panels are floating over the desktop. When I open an image or ‘new’ file, I will then get the usual grey background but have to stretch it to fill the screen.
Am I missing something here? Should I not always have the grey background by default when the program loads?
Awesome, thanks for the tip! They should have labeled the menu item “Layer with Background…” instead of “Layer from Background…” since it actually moves/converts the currently selected layer to a background layer as opposed to making a copy of it.
Oops, scratch that, reverse it. Of course I meant “Background with Layer…” vs “Background from Layer…” anyway, whatever, cool tip!
Thank you so much! This was concise and super helpful.
Still very relevant and helpful in 2020